Monitoring and Evaluation Officer- NOB ARUA

WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.  The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes.  Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

Education: Advanced University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, Data Science, Public Health/Nutrition, Geography or other related field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience and/or training/courses.
Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s working language, Portuguese.

National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and the duty station’s language, if different.

These roles are found in Headquarters (HQ), Regional Bureaux (RBs) or Country Offices (COs), and report to a more senior VAM or Programme Policy Officer. Job holders operate independently and are involved in operational activities and related analytical work.

The position plays a co-lead role in driving attitudinal change, drawing attention to new issues and affecting the awareness, attitudes or perceptions of key stakeholders. This function will lead the AO’s coordination of monitoring activities, managing or supporting the management of feasibility and other programmatic studies, supporting thematic/mid-term reviews and positioning WFP as a reliable partner for governments to build monitoring and evaluation strategies. 
 
This function is critical in clearly articulating the institutional arrangements and data sources needed to facilitate a reliable flow of information to track the implementation of social protection programmes. Institutional arrangements such as integrated delivery systems and Management Information Systems (MIS) are critical for programme improvement in terms of design and implementations as they enable largescale and frequent reviews of the social protection programmes
 
A key component will be to derive discursive commitments from District Local Governments and other policy actors through rigorous participatory approaches to measure impact, quality and progress while influencing behaviour change in stakeholders where policy change requires changes in behaviour and implementation at various levels in order to be meaningful and sustainable.
 
 

1. Contribute to evidence-based decision-making on programme design and implementation, notably through making monitoring, review and evaluations findings accessible, developing innovative, userfriendly and informative products. 

2. Design and supervise baseline data collection and analysis to illustrate the situation prior to response or intervention while leading field teams in development and interpretation of indicators for outcomes.

3. Guide the introduction and implementation of robust analysis, monitoring and evaluation that support social protection systems and offer the most productive tools to simultaneously assess programme’s effectiveness and provide guidance for improvements.        

 4. Supervise, disseminate and enable field teams to understand the analysis of data collected on outputs and how and whether they contribute toward achievement of outcomes

5. Expand field teams’ focus on perceptions of change among stakeholders to define monitoring and learning

6. Support WFP Management in addressing recommendations from monitoring, reviews and evaluations to ensure that follow-up actions are taken as required. 

7. Provide inputs to AO and CO management regarding the development and implementation of national government and inter-agency monitoring, reporting and evaluation frameworks, including United Nations Development Assistance Cooperation Framework aligned with nationally owned sustainable development goals. 

8. Co-lead in creating an evidence base for decisions regarding various organizational investments and programmes which not only brings in transparency but also provides objective (rather than emotional or moral) grounds to engage with public/political opposition to such expenditure.

9. Take responsibility for integrating protection and gender perspectives in all areas of work, to ensure equal participation of women and men. 

10. Promote knowledge and influence policy by strengthening the field teams’ interpretation of analysis and research to improve the level of knowledge for decision-making.

11.  Strengthen collaboration with strategic partners in measuring impact, quality and change

12. Guide and support the collection, analysis and utilization information on success or failure of partnership strategy in achieving desired outcomes.

13. Analysis of partner-centred development and behaviour change and tracking changes in behaviour of stakeholders in order to enable the field teams to understand how influencing change requires engaging with partners, their role, their relationships, their mindsets and motivations. 

14. Guide field teams in the art of community and stakeholder engagement and accountability with emphasis of reflection on relationships and responsibilities while fostering a two-way accountability.

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.

This section is optional to describe other duties, skills & knowledge required for the specific job.

• Advanced University degree in Project Management, Development Studies, Social Studies, Economics or equivalent.

• Minimum of 4-5 years of professional practice in results-based management, monitoring, evaluation, analysis and research

• Sound knowledge, ability and practice in guiding the management teams to draw causal connections between policy priorities, the resourcing of policy objectives, the programmes designed to implement them, the outputs achieved, and their impact on communities. 

• Sound research experience using variety of analytical tools and methods for causality analysis, forecasting, and other data modeling needs.

• Excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills

• Proven experience in participatory approaches with the community, local government and stakeholders 

• Membership in a National or International Professional Evaluations or Research body or association.

• Ability to communicate fluently in one of the main languages of Northern Uganda

Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.